I thought this race was completely flat but it seems that Stage 5 has a small hill at the start. Romain Feillu attacked to take the points and wins the KoM jersey for the tour.
Hampton, Haddou, Rollin, House, Butterfield and Tang joined Feillu in the break.
Hong Kong's Tang just edged out Haddou in the first intermediate sprint
But the frenchman comfortably won the 2nd.
The break would be caught and in the sprint White Bear Steyr were at the front, like in Stage 3, but Brown is nowhere in sight. Priamo is leading out Corioni, Bongiorno and Casper. Swift is leading out Backstedt while Friedman leads out Haedo.
Haedo's hopes are quickly ended as Friedman lacks the pace today. So its between Corioni, Bongiorno and Casper.
Corioni began to pull away
And its a win for the Italian
Cozza, Duggan and Van Ulden all fall out of the top 10 as they were dropped having worked chasing the break.